Oh you mean a better way to rank websites than using Alexa, thought you meant voting polls like this one.
There is no source of accurate traffic information to a site for obvious reason, would Tescos for example want ASDA to know exactly how many visitors they get, it’s valuable business information.
So Alexa is trying to get a measure of a sites traffic, but the method is seriously flawed. You’ll find a high proportion of webmasters (like me) will install the Alexa toolbar, so they can get an insight into their own sites traffic and their competitions, this means websites about building websites tend to get a much higher Alexa ranking than say a site about cooking. Then there’s the ease of manipulation I mentioned before!
BTW I’m not suggesting the BNP website isn’t popular, I was pointing out Alexa is a very flawed method for determining ranking, especially relative ranking. I’m sure the BNP website is far more popular than the other main political parties, for starters it’s a better built site for visitors with an open commenting system, (that alone can attract 10s of thousands of visitors a year, we all love to have our say) add to this the controversy surrounding the BNP and both supporters and non supporters visit the site regularly. I’ll never vote BNP, but I’ve been on the BNP’s site many times more than the other political parties put together. And I do have the Alexa toolbar installed :)
In comparison look at the Labour party website, no where to comment openly, no forum, just boring political articles with no visitor participation. There’s little reason to visit on a regular basis, their mistake (big one as well IMO).
David
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